The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/08 at 17:00 EST

Episode Date: February 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/08 at 17:00 EST

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and start listening today. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. China may have launched a disparaging and malicious information campaign against Liberal leadership candidate, Chrystia Freeland, according to a Canadian intelligence task force. Kate McKenna has the details. The task force that monitors foreign interference says an information operation was directed at Liberal leadership candidate, Chrystia Freeland, and the Chinese government may have been behind it.

The task force says officials detected coordinated and malicious activity targeting Freeland, and the operation was traced to WeChat's most popular news account, an anonymous blog linked to the People's Republic of China. In a statement, Freeland said she won't be intimidated by Chinese foreign interference and thanked national security agencies. It's very troubling that this continues to happen. Liberal leadership front-runner Mark Carney says he reached out to Freeland last night. I absolutely support her campaign and the process that we're undertaking to have a fair election for the leadership of the Liberal Party.

He thanked Global Affairs for their work to detect foreign interference. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Ottawa. Alberta's Premier is responding to allegations of political interference in the way contracts were awarded by the Alberta Health Service. Danielle Smith is urging the province's Auditor General to expedite his investigation. And the Premier says she was not involved in any wrongdoing. Joe Horwood has the latest. JLMN Reporter Alberta's Auditor General revealed the ongoing investigation Thursday after The

Globe and Mail reported it had obtained a letter from the lawyer of Athena Menzelopoulos, the former CEO of Alberta Health Services. The CEO was recently fired from her job. According to The Globe, the letter included claims of political interference. It also alleged that the CEO was dismissed days before she was scheduled to meet with the Auditor General about her own investigation into procurement contracts and deals for private surgical facilities. CBC News has been unable to obtain a copy of the letter. In a statement Saturday morning, Premier Smith calls the allegations troubling and says she has not been involved.

She says she has directed officials to be quick and transparent with requests from the Auditor General. She also says she has asked for an internal review underway at AHS to be delivered to her directly. Jo Horwood, CBC News, Calgary. On an Israeli army base, or levy rushes into his brother's arms, hugging him tightly, he was one of three Israeli men released after almost 500 days in Hamas captivity. Unlike hostages released earlier, the three looked gaunt, pale and weak. Their release was the latest under the Gaza ceasefire agreement and was accompanied by the release of 183 Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Gaza.

The released Palestinians were welcomed by hugs from friends and family. Negotiations on a second phase of the deal began this week. It's hoped the agreement would see more hostages for prisoner exchanges and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. The three Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, have disconnected their electricity systems from Russia's power grid. It's part of a plan to integrate the countries more closely with the European Union and boost security.

Latvia had power workers cut the wires in a symbolic gesture. The country's energy minister, Kaspar Smelnis was there. It's a historical moment and we are a step forward in energy security and energy dependence. And we are cutting because there's no way back. The Baltics had been debating disconnecting from Russia's grid for decades, the remaining link with Russia, plans to act on the idea, gain momentum after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and then invaded Ukraine in 2022. Sony's PlayStation Network is experiencing a major outage across the world. Tens of thousands of gamers are unable to access online services, stores and multimedia apps. An outage tracker

says users started to report issues with PSN late Friday. And that's your World This Hour. For CBC, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.